The past several years have been real good to Al Jourgensen and all that is Ministry. With a clean and healthy outlook on life, (as clean and healthy as someone like big, bad Al can be) - Ministry have been prolific in releasing amazing album after amazing album. They have a habit of doing that when there is a GW Bush in power as the band is its most vitriolic and venemous during the Bush years.
“We don’t just bitch about Bush and global oligarchies. We’re still a rock band and ‘Cover Up’ is THE Ministry party album,” said Ministry’s Al Jourgensen about Cover Up, recorded by Ministry & Co-Conspirators and set for an April Fools Day (April 1) release.
To be perfectly honest, I didn’t think much of this release when I first checked it out. Some of the tunes I already had (such as ‘Lay Lady Lay’ and ‘Supernaut’ - the latter featuring Al Jourgensen on vocals and not Trent Reznor as had originally been recorded so many moons ago) and the new stuff sounded a little underproduced, somewhat rushed and reeked of Big Al ‘cashing in’. On repeated listens, I’ve grown to appreciate the ‘party’ aspect and in turn, I’m digging this sucker!
Is it to be the final musical statement from Ministry? Who knows. I for one would love to hear more from Al and co in the future as I’m a fan of everything this band has done. But we’ll just wait and see…
The Co-Conspirators: Tony Campos, John Bechdel, Tommy Victor, Al Jourgensen, Sin Quirin, Aaron Rossi
More on ‘Cover Up’ here.
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